Music-cabinet



W. G. LEONARD.

MUSIC CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED MAY28, 1919.

1,335,286. Patented Mar. 30,1920.

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UNITED STATES PA TENT OFFICE.

WALTER G. LEONARD, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF '10LE ROY S. C. NELSON, 013 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

MUSIC-CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 30, 1920.

Application filed. May 28, 1919. Serial No. 300,425.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, V ALTER G; LEONARD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State ofCalifornia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Music-Cabinets,of which the following is a specification. 1

My object is to make a music cabinet, and my invention consists of thenovel features herein shown, described and claimed.

Figure 1 is a perspective of a complete music cabinet embodying theprinciples of my invention with the door closed.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the cabinet shown in Fig. 1 with the dooropen.

Fig. 3 is a vertical cross section on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a perspective of one of the music holder slides.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the

- music holder slide 1 consists of a flat rectangular board 2 and acleat 3 nailed across its rear lower edge. The stationary cabinet, orstand 4: consists of a back wall 5, side walls 6 and 7 extendingforwardly from the back wall 5, a bottom 8 rigidly mounted between theside walls 6 and 7 against the back wall 5, a top 9 rigidly mounted uponthe side walls and back wall, and a door 10 hinged to the forward edgeof the side wall 7 to form the front wall. Pairs of angle irons 11, 12,13, 14:, 15, 16, 17 and 18 are secured to the inner faces of the sidewalls 6 and 7 to form slideways for the music holder slide 1, the pairsof angle irons being progressively spaced apart at their rear ends andsubstantially evenly spaced apart at their front ends, so that the upperpair 11 is substantially level, the next pair 12 slightly inclined andso on down until the last pair 18 is considerably inclined, the objectbeing to bring the labels upon the music boxes in position to be readilyseen, and so that all the labels may be seen from the same position.

The music holder slides 1 are mounted upon the pairs of angle irons, andthe collections of music containerslt), 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26are adapted to fit the music holder slides 1, so that a certain numberof the containers will fit upon a slide, and so that a single containeras 25 may be withdrawn from the slide, or so that the entire collectionas 26 may be withdrawn with the slide. The cleats 3 serve to hold thecontainers in position when it is desired to withdraw the entirecollection with the slide.

The labels are located upon the outer ends of the containers and thearrangement of the slideways holds the slides to hold the containersupon radial lines to the eyes of the operator at a proper height anddistance so as to avoid the necessity of the operator crouching down toview the labels upon the lower containers.

Various changes may be made without departing from the spirit of myinvention as claimed.

I claim:

A music cabinet comprising a back wall, side walls extending forwardlyfrom the back wall, a bottom 1I101111l38l between the side walls againstthe back wall, a top mounted upon the side walls and back wall, a doorhinged to the forward edge of one side wall, angle irons secured to theinner faces of the side walls and forming slideways, said angle ironsbeing progressively spaced apart at their rear ends and sub stantiallyevenly spaced apart at their front ends, so that the upper pair issubstantially level, the next pair slightly inclined and so on downuntil the last pair is considerably inclined, music holder slidesmounted upon the pairs of angleirons, and cleats across the rear sidesof the music holder slides.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to! this specification.

WALTER G. LEONARD.

